Reablement Worker - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for experienced health care staff to join the team on Green ward 1, within Longmoor House.

Experienced health care staff are required to provide reablement for patients as part of this new service within Mersey Care's community division.

The Band 3 Reablement worker posts will be based in Longmoor House, on the Aintree Hospital site and will be supporting individuals to reach increased levels of independence and return home.

Successful candidates will be expected to work across a 24/7 shift pattern and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to learn, develop and practice a variety of skills, as well as being a valued member of our exceptional multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

The Reablement Worker will function as part of the multidisciplinary team within a sub-acute intermediate care setting to provide a seamless service to patients.

The post holder will continue to develop and undertake a range of delegated tasks and will report to a registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional.

The Reablement Worker will provide general / specific rehabilitation, reablement and personal care as specified below for a patient group and will be proficient and competent to work across professional disciplines. The reablement worker will also be supported to achieve competencies to enable them to work in-between the disciplines.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Job responsibilities

1. Deliver clinical and therapeutic care to patients as per care plan and assist the nurses and Allied Health Professionals in patients treatment. To undertake rehabilitation and reablement of patients as per the multidisciplinary team plan

2. Perform patient assessment (under supervision and after appropriate delegation from the registered practitioner) to identify goals and plan and deliver high standards of care

3. The clinical work will follow protocols/treatment plans and is aimed at exercise and advice where appropriate, as well as enabling the patient to improve functional ability and mobility (ability to get in and out of bed, transfer from chair to toilet, walk with walking aid if necessary and climb stairs if appropriate) and promote independent living

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Knowledge / Experience

Essential

Desirable

Values

Essential

Skills

Essential

Values

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Personal Attributes

Essential